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Fewer Coins in the Tin...
...Joplin biography is equally formidable in its research. Combing census records, city directories and newspaper files across the Midwest, Berlin follows in detail Joplin's travels from his birthplace near Texarkana, Texas (his father Giles was a freed slave), through the bandstands and bordellos of the Mississippi to Tin Pan Alley, the budding popular-music scene in New York City. Berlin then recounts Joplin's syphilis-induced descent into madness, a deterioration that ended with his death in Manhattan in 1917 at age 49. Joplin earned a penny for each copy of The Maple Leaf Rag that was sold...
...with admirable exhaustiveness, Berlin stops short of exploring the inner life of his subject. That is unfortunate, for despite Joplin's constant travels and his uncanny knack for turning up in the right place at the precise point in history when his music would have the most impact (in Tin Pan Alley, for example, in the early 20th century), his life was not particularly full of incident, and his intellectual development may have been as important as any documented event. Joplin had a fierce desire to show the whites in America that blacks were their equal in every respect. Repeatedly...
...have. On the verge of defeat, Ben-Shachar eked out two more points, tying the score at 17. Then, with the eyes of the whole crowd pinned to him alone, Ben-Shachar mustered a serve for all time--a hard, low beauty which Dean could only return into the tin...